The Mound Builders

Interesting update on a long gone North American culture, the Mound Builders.

The Sacrifices They Made

"That sacred ground, we now know, was the site of the bloody mass murder of countless young women, bludgeoned or decapitated en masse as they stood on the edge of burial pits, sometimes as many 53 at a time, and not all of them dead when the pits were filled in."

Hmmm. Somewhere in the past 20 or 30 years, American anthropologists and archaeologists must have gotten over their fear of an Indian backlash against everything discovered via their science which doesn't support the Indian Industry orthodoxy. There was a time when any thought of excavating these mounds, and there are untold numbers of them, was tantamount to original sin. The real reason, of course, was that North America's aboriginal population doesn't want any of their own mythological - er - religious beliefs to be challenged or any of the less savory parts of their ancestral heritage to be let out of the bag.

Too bad, so sad.

Some good stuff in the comments, too, except for the usual apologists who feel compelled to come to the defense of political correctness.

And I might as well throw this in for good measure. It's a series on the blood soaked culture of the Aztecs as the Spanish explorer Cortez found them. The Aztecs, and previous meso-American civilizations built mounds, too, but theirs were made of stone and rival the pyramids of Egypt. And their lust for human sacrifice, carving out the hearts of living victims, is legendary. Like all civilizations, their cultural inventions were adopted to some degree or another by others many, many miles away. Hence, it should be no surprise that Mound Builder cultures arose further north, even as far north as what is now Southern Ontario, and that human sacrifice would be part of it.

The Last Aztecs - Part 1

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Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10